NOVANEWS Colombian political prisoner David Ravelo, jailed since September 14, 2010, learned late in November 2012 that he had been convicted and sentenced to 18 years in jail. His case, based on spurious evidence, reflects […]
NOVANEWS Congress on Tuesday approved a controversial military justice reform that grants jurisdiction over crimes committed by members of the military to military tribunals.The reform has been criticized heavily by human rights organization and the […]
NOVANEWS Former President Alvaro Uribe will be denounced by the representative Ivan Cepeda in the free version to the paid exmandatario Indictment before the Commission in August. / File Former President Alvaro Uribe by […]
NOVANEWS Swept up in a recent wave of arrests in Cuba, former political prisoner of conscience Iván Hernández features in a must-see film (above) shot undercover by Al Jazeera, using hidden cameras to portray the experience of Berta […]
NOVANEWS DISCREDITTED INTER-AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION AN ORGAN EXTENSION OF IMPERIALIST ”OAS” REMOVES COLOMBIA FROM BLACKLIST BUT ”ONLY TEMPORARILY” IT SAYS! Colombia removed from human rights ‘blacklist’ The Inter-American Human Rights Commission has takenColombia off its human […]
NOVANEWS ILO Convention 169, Law 70 of 1993, etc. etc. The Colombian army is building a base in Llano Rico, one of Curvaradó’s 23 communities. The government is supposed to consult the members of the […]
NOVANEWS Captured drug lord “Fritanga,” a prominent member of the neo-paramilitary group Los Urabeños, wasallegedly collaborating with the people responsible for guarding him.In a letter addressed to General Gustavo Ricaurte, director of Colombian prison agency […]
NOVANEWS The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) may already count with its own agency to solve conflicts in matters of investments by the first quarter of 2013, informed Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino.The proposal […]
NOVANEWS Since February, forensic anthropologists have turned up over 400 skeletons at a military base in Coban, Guatemala, in what has fast become one of the largest discoveries of a clandestine mass grave in the […]
NOVANEWS In previous blog posts we’ve commented on the rampant political violence in Honduras since the country’s 2009 military coup, as well as the alleged involvement of Honduran security forces in extrajudicial killings and other […]